A Psychological Reading of the Anglo-Saxon Poem Beowulf: Understanding Everything As a Story - Hardcover

Goodwyn, Erik

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 077344291X ISBN 13: 9780773442917

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Synopsis

Compares clinical case studies with the powerful emotional meaning behind the symbols of the hall, the monsters, the reassures, and the final battle, and shows how a detailed study of Beowulf uncovers problems facing both ancient and modern humanity.

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Review

"He [Goodwyn] has gone deeply into the history, culture and languages of the peoples who told stories like that of Beowulf and he has come back with a treasure-trove of insights that challenge our own cultural assumptions and suggested a world far more invested with significance than the one we inhabit." (Dr. John R. Haule, Jungian Analyst, Boston, MA) "His book is a major intellectual, spiritual, and cultural achievement, penetrating mysteries at the heart of one of the great stories of our culture...to my knowlege, no one has adopted this approach to the early English epic, Beowulf, with the same extensive research, thorough scholarship, and imaginative sensibility displayed by Dr. Goodwyn." (Dr. Anthony Stevens, Senior Member of the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists, London)"

Edition details

• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
• ISBN 10: 077344291X
• ISBN 13: 9780773442917
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 421